Cayenne pepper really does stop bleeding. (They used to use it for that purpose in wars.) We bought a young Alpine buck a while back that was pretty wild because he hadn't been handled. He had been disbudded but decided to grow horns at just under a year old. One day he caught one of them in some fencing and broke it off. It was bleeding badly. Jack came to the back door calling for help and told me what had happened. I knew about cayenne so I grabbed some from the kitchen and ran it outside. Jack was elected to be the one that applied the cayenne to the badly bleeding horn site. While cayenne may burn at first, it then deadens pain. (You'll see it in arthritis rubs and such.) It was the burning part that concerned us. (Especially Jack). He went in and after much crashing around in the barn, he emerged unharmed. (Jack, not the goat.) Now that the coast was cleared, I went in and saw that the bleeding had slowed to a small trickle, then clotted and stopped completely. What a wonderful thing.
Hope your daily adventures turn out well.
Nancy
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